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Skriven 2015-12-26 11:29:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
Ärende: Re: apples  was: sausage
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-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 12-25-15  00:41 <=-

 >  > At least as long as the effects persist...  ;)
 >  RH> Since they can't fix the underlying problem, and the "repairs" aren't
 >  RH> guarenteed permanent, I'd say it would be hard to forget.
 > True enough...  :)
 > 
 RH> OTOH repairs beat the alternative.

Which... not fixing the repairs...?   The other alternative holds
promise for not dealing with any of it any more, and having it all fixed
forever...  ;)

 >  > And probably has had enough car rides not to the hated place to not
 >  > automatically associate the two...  :)
 >  RH> Yep. Poor Thelma doesn't like cars, and with good reason.  Her next
 >  RH> ride will probably be the last. 
 > We've let ours stay home in "hospice" most times... 

 RH> Most of ours have been taken elsewhere.  If they're suffering, I'd
 RH> rather they went quickly.

Ours rarely have let on when they were suffering... One that did, at the
end, quietly slipped away overnight just before we were going to take
him in in the morning... hadn't even mentioned it out loud to him...  :)
Of the two that did go elsewhere, one was there to be stablized and it
didn't work, and the other was truly bad enough to not just let it
ride... For her, we were all there, my son (her person) holding her to
the end...  :)

 >  > instead... Turned out he was allergic to the milk they were wooing him
 >  > with, and he made a mess on the way home... not on me, at least... one
 >  > of the two culprits rode home with me to take care of him so I could
 >  > drive... she had to change her clothes twice on the 45 minute ride
 >  > home... ;)
 >  RH> (LOL)  That'll teach you to feed milk to an adult cat! A lot of them
 >  RH> can't handle it.
 > Oh, he wasn't an adult... probably no more than about 6 weeks old... :) 

 RH> Oops.(LOL)

He always wanted it anyway, so we only let him have little tastes... we
obviously knew better (as did he, if he'd think) than to let him gorge
on it...  ;)

 >  RH> He was probably a scrounger cat, if he lived at the camp.  Hunted
 >  RH> leftovers.
 > Not sure what he did do... he apparently was part of a litter taken out
 > to the "country" and dumped (we always surmised it was in a black
 > garbage bag, as the mere sight of one being opened up would turn him
 > from a placid kitty into a terrified one)....  He might have only been
 > dumped there a short time before the weekend our church spent there...

 RH> I've heard of people doing that.  Makes you want to beat them. Or tie
 RH> THEM in a plastic bag and leave them by the side of the road. 

Yeah... One wonders what they are thinking...

 >  RH> One of mine was only inside for a week or so.  FIV got him, for all
 >  RH> intents and purposes.
 > That's sad...  We had one stray that only stayed inside for less than a
 > day, but then that was because she decided to escape back into the great
 > outdoors because indoors was too scary for her... ;)

 RH> Truth!  She was probably claustrophobic.

Definitely too feral, at any rate... 

ttyl        neb

... A grapefruit is a lemon that had a chance and took advantage of it.

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